Pilot Eyes Transcontinental Jet Speed Record Try
Long Beach based Flight Test Research plans to fly an ex Canadian Air Force F86 Sabrejet to beat the Los Angeles New York speed record of 4 hours 15 minutes. Russ O Quinn of FTR says he can complete the route in under four hours using restored jets, engines and afterburners. He notes the company owns multiple jet trainers and a Super Sabre, with a Mojave test range now used for classified air to ground rocket testing.
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Long Beach
Dan
Russ O’quinn
Flight Test Research, Inc
E. Wardlow
New York
Learjet
O’quinn
Douglas
O'Quinn
RCAF
Golden Hawks
U.S. Air Force
Thunderbirds
Mojave Desert
Mojave
James Lucey
Air Force Engineering
Sylvania
Compton Appoints Three Negroes to School Posts
Compton officials announced three Black administrators were named to high level posts in recent weeks to show constructive actions amid unrest. Aaron Wade becomes principal at Compton High School, John Graham to assistant superintendent in charge of instructional services, and John Q Adams named principal of Ralph Buncher High School.
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Compton
Aaron Wade
Compton High School
Edward Motte
Carl F. Heinz
John Graham
Heinz
John Q. Adams
New Principe
Ralph Buncher H High School
Wade
Moore
Palos Verdes Peninsula
Board of Education
Ross Miller
Adams
Centennial High School
Graham
Death sentence commuted to life in California case
Harald A. Spencer, condemned for the 1962 gunshot death of Richard Heathman during a $5 robbery, had his execution commuted to life by Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler. The case cites a hung jury in a retrial last May and Spencer’s conduct as a model prisoner. the 38 year old’s sentence was reversed in 1965 due to a parole guidance error.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Harald A. Spencer
San Quentin
Superior Court
Mark Brandler
Ivan Lawrence
Spencer
Brandler
Richard 3
Heathman
State Supreme Court
Concerts in the Grove lineup at Long Beach
The Med iu m Here and There Saul and the Witch of Endor performs in the Concerts in the Grove series at California State College Long Beach at 8 30 p m. Kiss Me Kate at Long Beach Civic Light Opera 518 E Fourth St also at 8 30 p m.
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Saul and the Witch of
Endor
Califormia State College
Long Beach
Kiss Me
Kate
Fast Chase Driver in Jail Ward
A Long Beach man Joseph L Bohall 26 led a 22 mile high speed chase at 98 mph abducting a child from Barbara Nagy 32 in a dramatic incident near Huntington Beach. He was captured after a 19 minute pursuit ending in a dust field. Bohall faces kidnapping grand theft auto and assault with a deadly weapon charges.
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Huntington Beach
Joseph L. Bohall
Long Beach
Torrance
Los Angeles County Hospital
Tenth St
208Th
Firestone Sheriff's Deputies
Long Beach and Harbor Division
Bohall
Araced
Barbara Nagy
Jack Reinholtz
Nagy
Torrance denies antiwar rally at Dow Chemical plant
The Torrance license review board denied Thursday by unanimous vote the Student Mobilization Committee request for an August protest at Dow Chemical Corp on the Hiroshima anniversary. Coordinator Michael McCabe said a press conference would announce whether an appeal is planned. The panel cited traffic disruption and interference with emergency services as reasons, but did not rule out a permit for another site.
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Torrance License Review Board
Dow Chemical Corp
Michael McCabe
the Chemical Company
Crenshaw Blvd
Dow Chemical
Us.s
Vietnam
Crenshaw Boulevard
Jerome I. Scharfman
Thajfman
Funeral Rites Set For John Gahafer In Louisville
Funeral service will be held Saturday in Louisville for John B. (Mike) Gahafer, 43, of 222 East Market Street, who was killed in an industrial accident Monday. Gahafer died when a truck trailer carrying a 58 foot concrete beam overturned in Richmond, California. Thieves in Douglas Aircraft Co parking lots looted an auto owned by Alex W. Gladd of Long Beach, stealing parts including a tachometer, fire extinguisher, side panels, vents, spark plugs, air cleaners, and wax.
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Louisville
John B
Mike) Gahafer
E. Market St
Gahafer
Richmond
Calif
Douglas Aircraft Co
Alex W. Gladd
Dashwood St
Long Beach
Carrier Fire Blazes In Amphibious Ship At Naval Yard
Fire aboard the amphibious carrier Princeton at the Naval Shipyard burned a aviation fueling crew ready room and sent smoke through the hangar deck. Fire teams limited damage to the small compartment beneath the flight deck an adjoining passageway and some electrical cables as Lt. Mike Goodman noted. A civilian yard worker spotted the blaze at 2 02 am prompting an alarm and rapid response.
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Aire
Princeton
Naval Shipyard
Mike Goodman
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Joseph Bohall
War March
John Gahafer
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Norwalk
Paramount
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Veterans’ Court OF
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A Price Ag
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Hestminster Memorial Park Mortuary
Cenimar
Court OF Honor For Veterans
Court of Honor
Westminster
Garden of Remembrance
Cdr
Claude. O'Hara
USN
O'Hara
C.F. Ohara
Westminster Memorial Park
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